Royal Mail Drop Off and Collection Tracked 48 Small Parcel via eBay Postage Centre

Couple of corrections and tips from a postie
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First off
Royal Mail & The Post Office are two DIFFERENT companies.

Since Royal Mail started the parcel collect service they've seen HUGE growth and take up, so much so the max amount of parcels we can collect from a customer is up to 50 now.

Naturally The Post Office weren't happy about this and the loss of business, plus they don't sell Tracked 48/24 as a service, only royal mail signed for and special delivery.

So to appease this the buying of tracked products from Royal Mail can now be dropped into a post office for a 16p fee.
(You still can't "buy" the Tracked service from The Post Office).

If you take an item to a Royal Mail DELIVERY OFFICE, with the label already on it or the customer service point printing it for you this is free of charge.

If you book a collection from your work or home address this is also free, and you can chose to print the label or have the postie bring it.

Once we scan the item on the pda, you will get an email receipt of the collection.

(pro tip, key the tracking number into the royal mail app for tracking updates)

Even if you've only booked ONE item, you can add up to an additional 49 to the pick up, say for example an ebay listing ends overnight, so long as one is "booked" you can add additional items (the additional items MUST have labels already afixed for the postie to scan).

Lot of people saying they don't want to wait in all day... You don't have to, you can select collect item/s from a Safeplace, ie garage, shed, cupboard, storage box, the postie will then get a notification to collect from the desired safeplace instead.

Pretty much all Amazon returns are using Royal Mail Tracked now, so can also be done via the amazon app or website returns section.

Hope this helps a bit.

Royal Mail service has been great for me. Collections and delivery always very reliable. Evri has been awful with parcels taking 5 or more days when they should have been 48 hours.

I been using this service a,while now ,collection usually next day after booking .saves going to post office

I've been using this service, but using the Royal Mail site as they give you the option to bring the label and for me currently that is a god send as I don't have a printer at home and the only location in my town is open from 8am to 10am (and they're trying to close that down) so these collections seem like they're going to become the default soon for Royal Mail (where I live anyway)

Used thus service and was really dissapointed and took over a week to deliver, so not impressed

Thanks

Been using this feature a lot on Royal Mail’s website. But it’s annoying when you book collection for next day and they don’t end up coming. Had that happen yesterday so went to the post office to send it. Then an hour later, the 16p surcharge came through which is fine but when you request next day collection, would be nice if it actually happened…

As others have said, collection on this service is hit and miss, our regular postman does not like to collect and rarely does, if you manage to catch him in the street, he will feign ignorance and reluctantly scan it but otherwise he just won't call. Currently he's off sick, has about 3+ months off sick per year and these times replacement postmen bring the backed up post every few days, so in my case I would much rather pay the extra and take to my local post office who are much more reliable, but if you actually have a good postman who comes at a regular time each day then this collection service is a great idea. (edited)

Is this a permanent offer or just for a few days/weeks

Seems nonsensical to use 2nd class if this is cheaper and tracked, don't think I've ever used them since this.
It's even better to use 24 tracked instaed of signed for, since no one actually signs anyway.